Internet Archive's in-browser bookreader "theater" requires JavaScript to be enabled. It appears your browser does not have it turned on. Please see your browser settings for this feature.

Famous painters of America

by: McSpadden, J. Walker (Joseph Walker), 1874-1960

Publication date: 1916

Topics: West, Benjamin, 1738-1820, Copley, John Singleton, 1738-1815, Stuart, Gilbert, 1755-1828, Inness, George, 1825-1894, Vedder, Elihu, 1836-1923, Homer, Winslow, 1836-1910, La Farge, John, 1835-1910, Whistler, James McNeill, 1834-1903, Sargent, John Singer, 1856-1925, Abbey, Edwin Austin, 1852-1911, Chase, William Merritt, 1849-1916, Alexander, John White, 1856-1915, Weir, Julian Alden, 1852-1919, Hassam, Childe, 1859-1935

Publisher: New York : Dodd, Mead & Company

Collection: americana

Digitizing sponsor: Brigham Young University

Contributor: Harold B. Lee Library

Language: English

Benjamin West, the painter of destiny.--John Singleton Copley, the painter of the early gentility.--Gilbert Stuart, the painter of presidents.--George Inness, the painter of nature's moods.--Elihu Vedder, the painter of the mystic.--Winslow Homer, the painter of seclusion.--John La Farge, the painter of experiment.--James A. McNeill Whistler, the painter of protest.--John Singer Sargent, the painter of portraits.--Edwin Austin Abbey, the painter of the past.--William Merritt Chase, the painter of precept.--John White Alexander, the painter of the flowing line.--Julian Alden Weir, the painter of the personal equation.--Childe Hassam, the painter of impressionism.--Bibliography (p. [411]-417, [1] )

1